4

Onward

Aaron threw the staff on the ground and walked outside the cell block that had once been the home of the brute and stood in an empty lot of grass near the cell. Just then, a large skyship emerged onto the the lot, making Aaron’s shaggy hair fly in the breeze. Door of the skyship opened up and Aaron’s wife & son Jake and Charlotte came running up to him, both giving him a hug. They had come to rescue him! Him and the rest of the crew jumped on board the silver-birch plated skyship and Charlotte took the wheel.

Aaron went to play shuffleboard with Jake when he saw a silhouette out the corner of his eye. He dismissed it, thinking it was a crew member. He hit the puck, and it rolled down the tawny-brown painted silver-birch wood. He heard birds chirping as they flew across the ice-blue sky, singing happily as they went. 

Just then he saw the shadow for the second time. This time it was unmistakable as the monster that had attacked him a couple of days ago! Aaron threw his stick on the floor as he pulled out his sword, ready to attack.

Just then, it started running! “C’mere you!” Aaron shouted in frustration. “You won’t hurt my crew or my family again. Not now, not EVER!” He lunged at it, missing by an inch. He noticed that as he lunged, the creature was a sort of.. brownish colour.

He shoved the thing down with his sword, and found out it was a toy dummy on wheels! The crew had tricked him. He dismantled the dummy and yelled at his crew “Who did this?” He heard a snigger from around the deck. He was about to yell out at the man but he took deep breaths and decided not to.

He went back to the shuffleboard area and explained the whole story to Jake and continued playing shuffleboard. After a while, the sky turned an orange shade, so Jake and Aaron agreed they would go to bed. But when Aaron Woke up, Jake was nowhere to be seen. “Oh no.” Aaron thought. “Here we go again.”